Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| OF objects relating to the art Of music is
| to be held in that city from the lst of
September to the 18th of October next,
and that foreign exhibits will be gladly
| received.
REPORTS in circulation with regard to
excitement and race troubles. in Gree n
vile and Pickens Counties, s. c., greatly
exaggerated the condition of affairs.
There is some local uneasiness, but no ex-
! pectation. of q collision. The colored
people and some Of the whites are form
ing labor associations, but no violence is
even remotely probable
| A TRAIN carrying two thousand school
children on an excursion on the Indianap-
oils Il Vincennes railroad, on the 3Oth,
narrowly escaped destruction. The rot
ten tlmbers of a bridge gave way beneath
the heavy train, and the cars sunk two
| feet, with jerk, when they were luckily
arrested by some other timbers and a
| wholesale slaughter of the lnnocents"
| averted.
THE new postal treaty with Mexico
| went into operation on the 1st.
| YALE defeated Harvard in the college
boat race at New London, Conn, on the
| 1st.
| THE three members Of the "fur rob-
! bers" gang captured in Michigan have
| been jail at Cleveland.
A DRUNKEN man at Chatham, N j.,
| committed a horrible wife murder on the
| 1st and then suicided.
THE decrease Of the public debt durin 2
June was SIG, S52, 725. II; for the past year,
! $l09, 707, GAG. 80.
Doc BUsHoNG, catcher of the st. Louis
Browns, had finger broken at Louisville
on the 1st, and will be laid up for several
| weeks.
OMAHA, Neb., has shut down on gam
bling, and the knights of the green cloth
are seeking new fields.
THE Metropolitan National Bank of
New York has begun suit against the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch Publishing Company
| for SIS, 000
Bloomington, ILL.,, of bunko sWindling,
have been held in $1,000 bail. They are
| badly wanted at other points.
ALBERT TURNER, murderer of Jennie
| Bowman, was hanged at Louisville, KY,
on the 1st, and James McElroy at Hen
| derson, same State.
| Much discomfort is re ported to exist in
Bohemia and Hungary, which it is pre-
dicted will ultimately menace the auton-
omy of the AustroH oHung garian empire.
| ATCHIsoN, Kas., is out of luck. There
is no money IN the treasury, her police
men and firemen have been discharged
| and the street lights put out.
| UNITED STATES MARSHAL j. f. d. COUZ-
ms has sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company for 900 damages, alleged to
have been sustained in being thrown
from car last winter.
MIR. AMMI BALDWIN, late cashier Of the
Fidelity National Bank of Gin cinnat, was
surrendered by Mr.. Adam Wagner, one
| of his bondsmen, on the 1st., but by good
fortune another surety, in the person OF
George Thomson, was secured and Mr..
Baldwin did not go to Jail.
AN examination which has been made
of the accounts of the late Levi Bacon,
financial clerk in the Interior Depart
ment, at Washington, who died the 22d
ult., reveals deficiency OF S2S, ,O0o.
BISHOP JAMES A. SHORTER of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, having
charge of the work in South Carolina ana
Georgia, died suddenly of heart disease
on the 1st at his home at Wilberforce, O.,
in the SEVENTEEN year OF his age
DR.. PARK KIBBIE, who was visiting at
his fathers farm, near Troy Mills, Ia, on
the 1st, in an alteration with farm
hand named Johnson, was struck on the
crushed. johnson fed, but was captured
at Independence.
FRIDAY, July l, was, according to Gus
tom in the Harmony Woollen Mills, at
Cohoes, N Y, the semi-annual scrubbing
day, when the weavers are required to
scrub the floors in the neighborhood OF
their looms They refused the task and
quit work, whereupon the mills were
closed, throwing about $500 operatives
out of employment.
GOVERNOR MARTIN Of Kansas has ap-
pointe General j. C. Cald well, of Topeka,
to adult the Price raid claims preparatory
to their consideration at the next session
of the Legislature. The claims have al
ready been audited four times and num-
Der of them have been paid by the United
States Government.
ADUEL was fought in the City OF Mex
ico on the 1st between Eustace Barron,
mem ber of one of the oldest English
families resident in the city, and Vincente
Garron, member of the Spanish Club.
Barron received slight bullet wound in
the side Garron had his temple grazed
by bullet from his adversary's pistol.
NATURAL gas rising from newly dug
we'll on the farm of Mr. Munson, near
Bloomington, ILL.,, caught fire some way
on the night OF the 1St, ana a umoer VI
me IN bers OF Munson's family were dread
fully burned about the face. One or two
of them were very dangerously injured.
Such gas wells are very numerous
about Mclean County.
AFEATURE Of the festivities at Keokuk,
Ia, on the 4th, was rowing race, which
Jake Gaudaur won, his contestants being
Charles GA udaur, of St Louis, and J. w.
Kennedy. Of Quincy.
In drunken row at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
on the night of the Sd, John Black,
farmer took his younger brothers. lie
with revolver. He was quarreling at
dance, and when his brother lnter1ereo
turned and shot him in the stomach.
MARSHAL NICoLAY of the United States
Supreme Court and John Hay receive
$50, 900 from the Century Com pany for the
privilege of publishing their Life OF Lin
colnn in the magazine. In addition to this
the authors will receive handsome roy
alty from the book when it is issued com :
plete. If 100000 sets are sold their total
remuneration will be not less than $l2o' :
900 apiece.
Grrs SrNDsTRoM and j. F. Robinson,